Mechanical Failure
2016 • 352 pages

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A smooth-talking ex-sergeant, accustomed to an easygoing peacetime military, unexpectedly re-joins the fleet and finds soldiers preparing for the strangest thing—war. The two hundred years’ (and counting) peace is a time of tranquility that hasn’t been seen since...well, never. Mankind in the Galactic Age had finally conquered war, so what was left for the military to do but drink and barbecue? That’s the kind of military that Sergeant R. Wilson Rogers lived in before he left the fleet to become a smuggler. But it turns out that smuggling is hard. Like getting-arrested-for-dealing-with-pirates-and-forced-back-into-service kind of hard. It doesn’t seem so bad—the military was a perpetual tiki party anyway—but when Rogers returns after only a year away, something has changed. These are soldiers—actual soldiers doing actual soldier things like preparing for a war that Rogers is sure doesn’t exist. Rogers vows to put a stop to all this nonsense—even if it means doing actual work. With an experienced ear for military double-speak, Zieja has created a remarkable and sarcastic adventure.


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Epic Failure is a 2-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Joe Zieja. The next book is scheduled for release on .

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Mechanical Failure
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This was a great read! I specially enjoyed that the author was also the audiobook narrator. It was an engaging and funny space comedy for fans of the old Space Quest games as well as ‘Off to Be a Wizard' by Scott Meyer

October 6, 2016

I can't decide if this is absolute rubbish or an amusing SF spoof. It has a feel of Hitchhikers, but not as well written.

November 28, 2017

If you like a little bit of military humor, plans to save the world gone awry, a main character who messes everything up in the most SPECTACULARLY lucky way possible, and a droid who can't swear... This is the book for you! OK, the droid swears once!

July 18, 2020

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